Posts from Hardware & Materials

The one thing every small kitchen wants is more space — more counter space, more cupboard space, more everything space. When installing another row of cabinets isn't an option (and how often is it, really?) the best workaround is to make the most of the space you have. That's when this product becomes your best friend.

To really understand the differences between the two cabinet systems, we turned to Dan Goldman of Brooklyn's PANYL. Dan recently built a kitchen using the new SEKTION, and this week he is sharing his experience with us — beginning with how SEKTION diverges from its predecessor.

Recently, while perusing a few of our vintage (read: 2011) Kitchen Tours, I ran across Penelope and Nathan's savvy Northeast Portland kitchen and its "compost hole," as Penelope calls it, carved out of the poured concrete countertops. It's one of Penelope's favorite features, and I can see why.

Ah, that awkward space above the kitchen cabinets — you know the one. In the past we've discussed using baskets or a bit of eye-catching wallpaper to fill the void. Still uninspired? Here's one more idea to add to the list: hang a shelf there!

As we wrote a few months ago, IKEA is retiring their AKURUM cabinet system and replacing it with SEKTION, a more modular system that promises to be even easier to work with and customize.

At the time we wrote that post, we hadn't yet seen the new system in action, but that was then, and this is now, and now we have all the details, pricing info on sample kitchens, and plenty of photos ahead of the official February 2 launch.

Paint, paint, glorious paint! There's nothing quite like it to make a ho-hum kitchen sing, and we've got 20 examples to prove it. Even better? We've saved you the frustration of trying in vain to replicate the look, because every one of these photos is labeled with the exact color and paint brand that was actually used in that kitchen.

So grab those paint-card samples and get to planning! What color will you choose for your kitchen?